<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Aug 23, 2006, at 1:14 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">On 23/8/2006, at 7:02, Chris Thomas wrote:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">[...] Note that the current top level string.* hierarchy should probably be placed under the proposed datatype hierarchy:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>inline-data.string.(double-quoted|whatever)</FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">One slight inconvenience is that we may want to style data structures with a faint change in background color, and that should apply to all but strings -- where strings would have a changed foreground color.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">So if we group them, we will see scope selectors like: ‘data - data.string’. Though as string coloring is the dominant case, and can still use a simple scope selector, this might not be a real concern.</FONT></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm all for using scopes to describe the languages as they are.</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">But i'm not feeling this <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">data.string</SPAN></FONT> business.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">String</SPAN></FONT> <I>feels</I> like it should be a root element.</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Logically it might make a lot of <I>sense</I> to move it in under something more broad.</SPAN></DIV><DIV>But i can't conceive of an actual use for it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">When would i ever want to color all <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">data</SPAN></FONT> a single color?</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">When would i ever want a snippet that only works in all of <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#00000000" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">data</SPAN></FONT>, including <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">string</SPAN></FONT>s?</SPAN></DIV><DIV>It just wouldn't ever get used like that, afaik. And would unnecessarily complicate the user's experience.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">However, the contents of <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">arrays</SPAN></FONT> and <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">objects</SPAN></FONT> and <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">tables</SPAN></FONT> and all kinds of other random <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px;">data</SPAN></FONT> structures would certainly all be grouped together in a theme all the time.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "></SPAN>thomas Aylott — </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><B style="font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">subtleGradient </SPAN></B></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -khtml-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -khtml-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">— </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">CrazyEgg</SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>